Re: builddir vs. srcdir

[Harald Dunkel]

Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
>
>
> > foo.c foo.h : $(srcdir)/foo.list $(PARSE_LIST)
> >         $(PARSE_LIST) $(srcdir)/foo.list foo.h foo.c    \
> >           || (rm -f foo.c foo.h ; exit 1)
>
>
> This rule can break with parallel make.
>
> You can solve the second issue by adding the dependency:
> foo.c: foo.h

Whats about a more general case

SOMEFILES=a b c d e

$(SOMEFILES): srcfile
        buildsomehow srcfile $(SOMEFILES) || (rm -f $(SOMEFILES); false)

???



Regards

Harri